Financial Melancholia: Mental Health and Indebtedness (original) (raw)

Financial Melancholia: Mental Health and Indebtedness

Abstract

The rise of mental health problems such as depression cannot be understood in narrowly medical terms, but instead needs to be understood in its political-economic context. An economy driven by debt (and prone to problem debt at the level of households) will have a predisposition towards rising rates of depression.

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